March 19, 2017

March 19, 2017 by yorksranter 3 comments

Universal Credit: the history of an IT project failure

Reading the Institute for Government’s report on Universal Credit, I was struck by two related things. First of all, the project was powered forward by people who didn’t bear any responsibility for its implementation. Whenever it ran into people who needed to care about how it would work, it hit opposition. Lord Freud’s original skunkworks…

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Marilyn Hartman (born 1951 or 1952), known as the Serial Stowaway, is an American woman known for stowing away on at least 22 commercial airline flights since 2014.[2]...Hartman's attorneys said in 2021 that she is mentally ill and that her stowaway conduct is a compulsive behavior.[2] Hartman is homeless and believes a worldwide conspiracy, operating […]
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system | Nature Ecology & Evolution
The absence of Cas1 and Cas2 may suggest LUCA encoded an early Cas system with the means to deliver an RNA-based immune response by cutting (Cas6/Cas3) and binding (CSM/Cas10) RNA, but lacking the full immune-system-site CRISPR. This supports the idea that the effector stage of CRISPR–Cas immunity evolved from RNA sensing for signal transduction, based […]
Saharan 'carpet of tools' is the earliest known man-made landscape | University of Cambridge
They estimate an average density of between 0.5 and 5 million stone artefacts per square kilometre of Africa. When converted into an estimate of volume, this is the equivalent of between 42 to 84 million Great Pyramids of Giza. Researchers say this would be the equivalent of finding between 1.3 and 2.7 Great Pyramids per […]
The Best GPUs for Deep Learning in 2023 — An In-depth Analysis
165 cycles (wait for async copy to finish) + 34 cycles (shared memory) + 1 cycle (Tensor Core) = 200 cycles....From these examples, it becomes clear why the next attribute, memory bandwidth, is so crucial for Tensor-Core-equipped GPUs.
Kamil Galeev on X: "I personally found it surprising how normalized is prison rape in the United States, culturally speaking. Seen almost as a normal, routine part of the punishment. Desirable, in fact In this particular regard, American punitive culture
I personally found it surprising how normalized is prison rape in the United States, culturally speaking. Seen almost as a normal, routine part of the punishment. Desirable, in fact In this particular regard, American punitive culture may be adjacent to the Russian/Soviet one
Aid officials recount violent looting in Gaza as criminal gangs thrive amid Israeli bombardment | Gaza | The Guardian
Central Gaza has emerged as a centre of resistance to the armed gangs who operate farther south, with multiple reports of fatal armed clashes between community groups and families based there and the gangs who steal aid before it reaches other parts of the territory. Some such violence has led to vendettas and a series […]
BBC release first pictures of crime thriller series Virdee | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Diamond heiress, 96, accuses art dealer husband, 61, of domestic abuse
Branco was born in Mozambique where his older brother, Sergio, became a cabinet minister when the nation won independence from Portugal. A second cousin, Antonio Costa, 63, was Portugal’s prime minister for nine years until resigning last year in a corruption scandal.
The Secret DJ. on X: "A story that names no names, or places, or times - it is like a lock that only has three keys. One of the keys is held by the victim, one by the writer, and one by the attacker. They are the only 3 people who can read a series of eve
Except one. One bright spark read one of the fully anonymised stories of rape and went online and said “hey! That’s me!”. Yes, you are hearing that correctly, Steven John Proctor was so thick he actually publicly outed himself as a rapist // not even the most embarrassing moment.
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OTU Donetsk has effectively transitioned to conducting a Corps-sized delaying operation. OTU Donetsk does not have enough forces within its Area of Responsibility to defend Kurakhove and the Sukhi Yaly Riverline effectively. It is trading space for time in-depth to slow down OSVs Tsentr and Vostok momentum without becoming decisively engaged. While coordination between ZSU […]